It's that time of year again, when people show their love through consumerism. Now don't get me wrong, I love chocolate, I just think it's stupid to designate one day a year to show you love someone. It's really the greeting card companies' faults. In Korea, Valentine's Day coincides with a holiday that they call Red Day. On Red Day, girls are supposed to give gifts to the boys that they like. One month later, on White Day, boys who got things from girls are supposed to give three times what the girl gave them if they reciprocate the feelings. That leaves April 14th, Black Day, for all of those who didn't get presents to celebrate. I assume this means eats lots of candy and cookies and cry into a gallon tub of ice cream as a group.
Will miracles never cease? I stumbled upon a Popeye's chicken fairly close to my apartment. I have never seen one of these in Korea and was completely dumbfounded. I mean I can't even remember seeing a KFC (although I know they exist here) and KFC's parent company has pretty well invaded the market with Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Also, Korean's don't seem particularly partial to spicy, or at least foreign versions of spicy.
At this point, I am impatiently waiting to hear back from graduate schools. I have a huge range of dates in which I could hear back from them and I'm pretty darn antsy. I have all of my taxes done and I almost (stupid website) have my FAFSA completed so I am in the home stretch and have pretty much nothing left to do but wait. Ugh, waiting.
I had a very eventful day last week. It started with two of my kids hitting each other (which they know they are not supposed to do) and me taking them to the teacher's room because it had happened one too many times. The kid who was doing the most hitting (who is also the kid who stole some stickers about a month ago and got caught) got in so much trouble that he had to go downstairs and talk to the principal and almost got sent home. He then came back to class crying, which is something I have only seen him do twice, once because he got soap in his eye and once because he felt sick. This all happened within the first 40 minutes of class. Everything went pretty pleasantly for the next hour or so. One of the girls was complaining that she was really hungry because she didn't like snack so she didn't eat it. She was starting to look like people do when they're so hungry they can't function. About ten minutes before lunch time, she proceeds to ralph all over her desk, sweater and tights. Luckily, because she hadn't eaten anything for a while, it was mostly just liquid. We got her cleaned up and she tried to eat a little bit of lunch, then went downstairs to sleep until her mom could pick her up. Thankfully, the rest of the day went pretty normally.
It's almost the end of the school year. My little kindergarten boogers are graduating in a week and a half and I'm getting pretty sad about it. I'm not really a big crier, so I don't think that will be a problem, but only two of them are coming back to afternoon classes in March. Have I mentioned that I have to make a speech at graduation as well? Yeah, still not done with that. I am a major procrastinator. A new American teacher is arriving on Wednesday as well. She is going to replace Erik. At the very least, this week won't be boring.
New person next week
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